Some of the tracks are physical release only, hence the shorted tracklisting on Bandcamp. Here's the full list:https://www.stereogum.com/2191246/stereolab-robot-riot-switched-on-5-compilation/music/
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 24 June 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
Slightly disappointing that SHM is apparently a needle drop.
I don't think the version NWW has been selling is. It's a little shorter because it doesn't play out the locked groove.
Maybe they wanted to make a 24 bit transfer and the original digital was just 16 bit. Still pointless from vinyl if you ask me.
― Noel Emits, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 21:30 (one year ago) link
Ahh...if that's the case, maybe the point of doing that was to document the locked groove version, since the shorter version is already available from NWW. I'm actually glad they did it this way! I never shelled out the import $$ for the original, but have "Simple Headphone Mind" on NWW's "The Swinging Reflective". Def. looking forward to finally owning "Trippin' with the Birds" and the "Low Fi" EP...Does anyone remember the early MP3 blog "Discover America"? I'm pretty sure that's how I heard "Simple Headphone Mind" for the first time.
― ernestp, Friday, 5 August 2022 03:23 (one year ago) link
Maybe, but it's just the little loop repeated for 10 seconds.
I think the track on The Swinging Refelctive is the second half TWTB rather than SHM. And NWW wants $10 for the two digital tracks!
― Noel Emits, Friday, 5 August 2022 09:02 (one year ago) link
You're right, I stand corrected - the track labeled "Simple Headphone Mind" on "The Swinging Reflective" is NOT "Simple Headphone Mind"! (Listening to it - I think it's the *first* half of "Trippin' with the Birds", with a fade-out.) Yeah - kinda wish now that they included both versions of SHM on the new collection, but oh well.
― ernestp, Tuesday, 9 August 2022 01:18 (one year ago) link
DC show sold out quick. I didn't act soon enough. Saw em years ago
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 August 2022 14:02 (one year ago) link
My copy of Pulse of the Early Brain arrived today, I think it is a significant step up from Electrically possessed, more focused, stronger material. It helps that it mostly covers 90s tracks rather than late 2000s. I'm very glad to finally have a vinyl version of Lo Fi.
Best of all, I'm seeing them perform on Friday!
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 22:57 (one year ago) link
So are ABC Music and Oscillons From the Anti-Sun the last things of note that haven’t been rounded up with this series?
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 02:22 (one year ago) link
^^^ both great!
― sleeve, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 02:24 (one year ago) link
Kinda weird Oscillons wasn’t a Switched On.
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 02:43 (one year ago) link
It is a little weird, I guess it's because it's a collection of CD maxi singles? I don't really know what else sets it apart.
Don't know if there was ever a 12" vinyl version of Fab Four Suture or if there is any need to do deluxe editions of Chemical Chords or Not Music.
Honestly what I really want is for them to record some new music.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 03:00 (one year ago) link
ABC and Oscillons are already compilations, so anthologising them would be ... weird? meta? redundant?
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 03:28 (one year ago) link
Yeah I was going to say, they don’t need to be compiled?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 03:32 (one year ago) link
They haven't had fancy vinyl editions as part of this new reissue campaign is all I was saying.
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 03:48 (one year ago) link
Right, and why is it that Oscillons is not considered part of the Switched On series?
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 03:51 (one year ago) link
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 12:07 (one year ago) link
I guess Oscillons isn’t a Switched On because they’re singles from albums. The Switched Ons compile non album EPs and rarities.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 12:12 (one year ago) link
or at least because it includes album tracks - since Fluorescences is a non album EP and contradicts what I said.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 12:14 (one year ago) link
Sorry if we’ve covered this way up thread, but … do the band members like each other enough at this point to do anything beyond tour?
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 13:11 (one year ago) link
Touring pays more than new music maybe?
― I am using your worlds, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 13:59 (one year ago) link
I guess they could have included Oscillations tracks in the deluxe reissues of Mars, Emperor, and Dots. How are those demos on the bonus discs?
― brimstead, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
I really love the inclusion of the demo tracks, it's very cool to hear their process, and many of them just sound nice as chill versions of their songs. The bulk of them are just Tim on guitar and Laetitia singing.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 16:49 (one year ago) link
yeah they are great
― sleeve, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 16:53 (one year ago) link
Seeing Stereolab next week. Excited.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 16:55 (one year ago) link
omg whyyyy are the download cards for Vol 5 MP3-only?
it's been so incredibly confusing, some reissues are lossless and some are MP3, with seemingly no rhyme or reason as to which releases are which
― sleeve, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 23:51 (one year ago) link
(just picked it up at my local store, it's a real treat to hear SHM in full sound quality)
― sleeve, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 23:52 (one year ago) link
heh, I've had it since release
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 8 September 2022 00:10 (one year ago) link
I couldn't find it at the time, which was very annoying to me as a huge NWW fan! Then every time I saw it after that I balked at the price rise, now of course it goes for way more
― sleeve, Thursday, 8 September 2022 00:20 (one year ago) link
this remastered Low Fi sounds absolutely fabulous btw
― sleeve, Thursday, 8 September 2022 00:21 (one year ago) link
oh great, I bought the digital version of vol 5 because shipping insanity, which doesn't include the Low Fi tracks for some rights-related issue (also omits the Ronco Symphony demo)
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 8 September 2022 00:52 (one year ago) link
There's not a single music shop in my city that stocks new CDs anymore, so had to buy the CD via Bandcamp, then felt ethically OK with dowbloading someone's CD rip while I wait, in order to get all the tracks.
― Soundslike, Thursday, 8 September 2022 03:00 (one year ago) link
lol I own like four copies of Low-Fi now, I am having trouble feeling bad about downloading FLACs from slsk of it
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Thursday, 8 September 2022 03:46 (one year ago) link
same, and the remaster is frankly incredible
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 8 September 2022 08:06 (one year ago) link
almost as if the original was ... never mind
Lol
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 8 September 2022 11:08 (one year ago) link
― sweating like Cathy *aaaack* (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 8 September 2022 12:20 (one year ago) link
you do, but sometimes the download doesn't match what's on the CD... in this case, Low-Fi tracks aren't available for download for licensing reasons. sometimes you get more though!
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Thursday, 8 September 2022 14:54 (one year ago) link
Yeah I niticed thatthre LoFi tracks aren't on streaming either.
― sweating like Cathy *aaaack* (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 8 September 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link
But they are - available for streaming and download, that is (in UK at least). You just have to look for them separately, as Too Pure owns the rights. And obv you have to pay extra if you want to download these. I grabbed the Low Fi 2022 remaster from iTunes.
Spotify:Low Fi - https://open.spotify.com/album/1lbjk75NdneaLDToYhwNT1?si=zhXy3WTbR4-XRX82uvK7kw
Ronco Symphony (demo) - https://open.spotify.com/track/6hj4txJ2xpzw7mtolzq2yx?si=939bebecf03d478b
― Jeff W, Thursday, 8 September 2022 18:53 (one year ago) link
the Godz cover on here ("ABC") absolutely slays, never heard it before
― sleeve, Thursday, 8 September 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
Yeah that was a cool tribute comp.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 8 September 2022 20:53 (one year ago) link
Lovely set here in SF tonight; a good complement to the 2019 reunion show. When your set ends with “Pack Yr Romantic Mind” and “Super Electric”…
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 06:45 (one year ago) link
'Mountain' was a highlight, too. wow!
― KevRus, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 13:25 (one year ago) link
so many songs I thought I'd never hear them play
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 13:49 (one year ago) link
2019 felt like a greatest hits tour, I'm very glad this was something different. All those oldies like Lo-Fi, Mountain, and Harmonium were just incredible.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 13:51 (one year ago) link
Here was our setlist
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/stereolab/2022/the-fillmore-san-francisco-ca-3b0016f.html
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 17:24 (one year ago) link
fairly similar to Austin
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/stereolab/2022/acl-live-at-the-moody-theater-austin-tx-43b0cb9b.html
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
“Mountain”! Damn.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
all the early tracks they revived sounded so good
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
I think “Mountain” was my first favorite Groop track (Refried Ectoplasm was where my fandom started, when a friend loaned it to me).
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 17:55 (one year ago) link